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Posts published in December 2020

Mendo’s Looming Mass Casualty Disaster

According to the National Institutes of Health, “A mass casualty incident (MCI) is defined as ‘an event that overwhelms the local healthcare system, where the number of casualties vastly exceeds the local resources and capabilities…

Off the Record (December 23, 2020)

IDIOCY MARCHES ON: The San Francisco School Board has decided that Lincoln High School must be re-named. Abraham Lincoln, you see, has been determined by these historical illiterates as unworthy because “the majority of his…

Disaster Prep & Wastewater Planning

Learning that the County expects to receive over $22 million in PG&E settlement money, and that the County intends to use the windfall cash primarily for  disaster recovery and preparation, the Anderson Valley Community Services…

Valley People (December 23, 2020)

IN LOCAL COVID NEWS, AV Fire Chief Andres Avila told the Board that 30 of the 42 active volunteers in the Department plan to take the covid vaccine as soon as it’s available. SUPERVISOR WILLIAMS:…

F. Scott Fitzgerald Bites the Big Apple

Excerpted from "The Lost City," the author describes his time in New York City, 1936.https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/city/blowing-town

Mendocino County Today: December 22, 2020

Cold Front | 26 New Cases | Butterworth Conundrum | Gift Books | Brevity Please | Figaro Family | Essential News | Fury Town | Owning Puff | New Highway | Ed Notes | 1900 Transportation | Winter Solstice | Hwy 20 | PD Headlines | Hwy 1 | Topknot Spotting | Driftwood Dragon | Rudilocks | Charity Nursery | Yesterday's Catch | Toy Soldier | First Christmas | Covid Relief | Bridge Column | Mitch Antoinette | Corporeal Joe | Magic Door | No Honeymoon | Good Question

In Praise of Sandhill Cranes

"Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again," the famous John Fogarty lyrics. That's about all I knew about Lodi. I've been to the Skydiving Center in Lodi but it's maybe more Galt than Lodi. Anyway.  But…

The Great Conjunction

The Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter can be seen tonight (also for the next few nights) - at sundown. An uncommon event, I'm told. Look To the southwest in the night sky. This year's great…

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